Calling it an exercise in imagination, seismologist Carl Tape stopped at the site of Dome City and the former townsite of ...

In response to public feedback, the landslide hazard maps are now more generic in the draft — without severity ratings.

Geologists discover that a huge prehistoric tsunami carried amber from coastal forests to deep waters in Japan 115 million ...

Texas State Senator Angela Paxton has filed for divorce from her husband, Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who ...

The unabashed xenophobia is no doubt thanks, in part, to Donald Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric. The president has recently ...

An executive order signed earlier this month by President Donald Trump would look to “consolidate” five federal wildland fire agencies into one. The U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

During the Alaska National Guard’s most recent disaster response exercise, Vigilant Guard, the AKNG made a significant leap ...

Perched on the edge of the continent where land surrenders to the mighty Pacific, Point Reyes Lighthouse stands as California’s most dramatically positioned maritime sentinel. This isn’t just another ...

There are two environmental campsites that are among the most coveted in the California State Park system—perched on a bluff overlooking the ocean with views of McWay Falls. These sites book up six ...

The Trump administration transferred 28,000 acres (11,331 hectares) in a remote part of Northwest Alaska to a native corporation, putting more land near a proposed mining road under local control.

Carl Tape's midsummer trek through ghost towns and newspaper clippings brings new insights to an earthquake nearly erased by time.

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks near Guatemala City led to landslides that were reported to have killed at ...